Congratulations to John Woolf whose Queen Victoria’s Freaks: Performers at Buckingham Palace is one of five proposals shortlisted for this year’s Tony Lothian Prize. The prize will be awarded at the Biographers Club Christmas party on Tuesday 12th December.

David Bullock, author of the sensational new Jack the Ripper book The Man Who Would Be Jack, may have found the grave site of the real Ripper. This story has been generating huge interest, including the following: